Act I, Scene 2 6. Chorus of Babylonians: "Behold, by Persia's hero made" 7. Recitative, Gobrias and Cyrus: "Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe" 8. Accompagnato, Gobrias: "Oh, memory!" 9. Air, Gobrias: "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" 10. Air, Cyrus: "Dry those unavailing tears" 11. Recitative, Cyrus: "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" 12. Accompagnato, Cyrus: "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" 13. Recitative, Cyrus and Gobrias: "Now tell me, Gobrias, does not this Euphrates" 14. Air, Gobrias: "Behold the monstrous human beast" 15. Recitative, Cyrus: "Can ye then think it strange, if drown'd in wine" 16. Air, Cyrus: "Great God, who, yet but darkly known" 17. Recitative, Cyrus: "My friends, be confident, and boldly enter" 18. Chorus of Persians: "All empires upon God depend"